Probably because most don’t know what Chromium is, or what open-source means or why certain websites don’t work (or work as well as in Chrome). Sad but true.

most of the population isn’t tech-savvy enough to know about different browser types, or care about which one they’re using. The reason chrome is so dominant is because it comes pre-installed on many devices, and so people just don’t bother to change it.

Hasn’t happened quite yet. uBlock Origin on Chrome is much less robust than on Firefox, that’s for sure. Manifest 3 is finishing it’s rollout this month and we’re looking at not being able to functionally use adblockers in Chrome very soon.

If those popups appear you can usually manually remove them using ublock origin

I’d recommend Brave for native ad blocking. It’s like built into the core of the program. It’s a chromium browser though. I would imagine Brave being against ad’s and tracking would strip out whatever weird ad 2.0 shit google is putting into it. I have Firefox and Brave installed. uBlock is good but not quite perfect.

That said Brave on Android phones is a godsend. Not having ad blocking on mobile is a nightmare.

I’ve used only ublock for a while and haven’t had any issues with sites detecting adblock. Heck, even with the recent youtube debacle I still block ads on yt and haven’t noticed any of the things people are complaining about. Though, I have youtube enhancer as well which also blocks ads.

And Piped too

What’s different between Firefox and librewolf ?

Not trying to be rude, but really? You thought that “most people jumped ship” on a browser that still has over 70% of the desktop browser marketshare in 2023?

Hell on mobile browsers it is just over 60% marketshare. The people that “jumped ship” on that one all own iPhones.

This is just a silly statement.

I used Firefox for years, then switched to Chrome for a bit. It ate up 60% of my RAM for no fucking reason, so I switched back to Firefox a few years ago. Fuck Chrome

I currently have 32 tabs open in Edge, albeit most of them have been suspended.

I also have FFXIV running at 40-60 fps. I could start encoding a video right now, and Edge would slow down minimally, if at all.

But for some reason, Firefox has always been slower for me. Basically everyone’s experience with slow Chrome is my experience with slow Firefox. I truly don’t understand why.

It’s just chrome with cryptobro twist

I switched to it a little more than a year ago now and can’t imagine going back.

Been there, done that, found more holes in vivaldi than the chrome itself, switched up to LibreWolf (a hardened fork of firefox.)

Vivaldi still uses Chromium as a base, so you’re still supporting Google and Chrome. Literally only Firefox and its forks use a different rendering engine (used to be Gecko, I think it’s Quantum now). If you are using a browser with Blink as a rendering engine, you’re using Google code, and Google will still be in control of your browser.